Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

NetApp's best-in-class file storage service, in Google Cloud

Secure and performant file storage that supports SAP, Microsoft, and Linux-based applications and makes it easy to migrate without refactoring or redesigning.

Features

Run enterprise apps faster and more efficiently

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports most on-prem applications. Seamlessly lift-and-optimize mission-critical Linux, Windows, VMware, Kubernetes, and SAP shared file workloads, among many others. Integrate and run complex, performance-intensive, and latency-sensitive applications. With Flex Custom performance, achieve rapid response times with throughput scaling up to 5 GiB/s and 160,000 IOPS per storage pool, efficiently running demanding workloads.

Reduce cloud storage costs by up to 90%

Set automation and optimization controls that fit your business, and reduce storage needed with​ instant, zero-footprint snapshots and volume clones.

Meet mandates for uptime, availability, and security

Instantly restore data from in-place, near-zero-footprint snapshots or remote backup copies in the event of unplanned data loss, ransomware, or data corruption​. Provide business continuity for your cloud application using cross-region replication, cloning and backups.


How It Works

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed cloud-native file storage service that provides high-performance, enterprise-grade storage powered by NetApp's ONTAP software. It simplifies the process of migrating and running your most demanding file-based workloads in Google Cloud without needing to refactor your applications.


Common Uses

Data sharing for Windows and Linux applications

NetApp Volumes enables data sharing for Windows and Linux applications, making it useful for user and group shares, application shares for unstructured data, SAP shared files, VDI, shared storage for MS-SQL, shared machine learning data, and PACS images.
flow chart showing microsoft applications

    NetApp Volumes enables data sharing for Windows and Linux applications, making it useful for user and group shares, application shares for unstructured data, SAP shared files, VDI, shared storage for MS-SQL, shared machine learning data, and PACS images.
    flow chart showing microsoft applications

      Storage for EDA applications

      NetApp Volumes enables performance benchmarked on industry standards for storage serving read-heavy, metadata-intensive front-end EDA workloads and write-heavy backend EDA applications and cache for shared tooling and chip-design data.
      Architecture diagram

        NetApp Volumes enables performance benchmarked on industry standards for storage serving read-heavy, metadata-intensive front-end EDA workloads and write-heavy backend EDA applications and cache for shared tooling and chip-design data.
        Architecture diagram

          Datastores for VMware clusters

          NetApp Volumes as NFS datastores with GCVE for scaling NFS storage alongside vSAN storage with your VMware clusters. This capability supports scaling of storage independent of compute resources. Read NetApp’s solution brief on migrating VMware workloads here
          Architecture diagram

            NetApp Volumes as NFS datastores with GCVE for scaling NFS storage alongside vSAN storage with your VMware clusters. This capability supports scaling of storage independent of compute resources. Read NetApp’s solution brief on migrating VMware workloads here
            Architecture diagram

              Quickly recover from ransomware attacks with snapshots and backups

              NetApp Volumes enables fast and easy ransomware recovery or even accidental data deletion via scheduled snapshots provide convenient, powered with low RPO/RTO recovery points. Users can access snapshots, and backups and self-restore data quickly and easily from within the console enabling fast ransomware recovery. Easily revert any volume back to a snapshot taken before the ransomware hit. Recovery time of volume is less than one minute versus restoring from backup which can take hours.
              diagram showing how data is recovered in less than 1 minute

                NetApp Volumes enables fast and easy ransomware recovery or even accidental data deletion via scheduled snapshots provide convenient, powered with low RPO/RTO recovery points. Users can access snapshots, and backups and self-restore data quickly and easily from within the console enabling fast ransomware recovery. Easily revert any volume back to a snapshot taken before the ransomware hit. Recovery time of volume is less than one minute versus restoring from backup which can take hours.
                diagram showing how data is recovered in less than 1 minute

                  External replication for migration and disaster recovery to cloud

                  Replicate with any NetApp ONTAP system (via SnapMirror technology) for rapid migration of complex datasets with minimal downtime or to secure a secondary data copy in the cloud for compliance or for disaster recovery. Protect your data in the cloud using cross-region volume replication, also powered by SnapMirror technology, which asynchronously replicates a source volume in one cloud region to a destination volume in a different cloud region, allowing use of the replicated volume as a read-only data copy or for critical application activity in case of a location-wide outage or disaster.
                  Cross-location volume replication shown on map of Europe

                    Replicate with any NetApp ONTAP system (via SnapMirror technology) for rapid migration of complex datasets with minimal downtime or to secure a secondary data copy in the cloud for compliance or for disaster recovery. Protect your data in the cloud using cross-region volume replication, also powered by SnapMirror technology, which asynchronously replicates a source volume in one cloud region to a destination volume in a different cloud region, allowing use of the replicated volume as a read-only data copy or for critical application activity in case of a location-wide outage or disaster.
                    Cross-location volume replication shown on map of Europe
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                      Pricing

                      Service levelsService level fit is evaluated by performance—as a combination of throughput, R/W mix, and latency.
                      Service levelFlexFlex RegionalStandardPremiumExtreme

                      Performance

                      5 GiB/sec shared by all volumes in a storage pool

                      16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)

                      16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)

                      64 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)

                      128 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)

                      Price*

                      ($ / GiB / month)

                      $0.105

                      (Custom provisioning)


                      $0.40

                      $0.20

                      $0.29

                      $0.39

                      Volume size

                      1 GiB to 307,200 GiB

                      1 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      Large capacity volumes

                      No

                      No

                      No

                      15 TiB to 3 PiB

                      15 TiB to 3 PiB

                      Regional availability

                      Most Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Most Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Uptime / SLA

                      99.9%

                      99.99%

                      99.9%

                      99.95%

                      99.95%

                      Protocols

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      *Cost for us-central1 region in USD. 

                      See all pricing.

                      Service levels

                      Service level fit is evaluated by performance—as a combination of throughput, R/W mix, and latency.

                      Performance

                      Flex

                      5 GiB/sec shared by all volumes in a storage pool

                      Flex Regional

                      16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)

                      Standard

                      16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)

                      Premium

                      64 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)

                      Extreme

                      128 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)

                      Price*

                      ($ / GiB / month)

                      Flex

                      $0.105

                      (Custom provisioning)


                      Flex Regional

                      $0.40

                      Standard

                      $0.20

                      Premium

                      $0.29

                      Extreme

                      $0.39

                      Volume size

                      Flex

                      1 GiB to 307,200 GiB

                      Flex Regional

                      1 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      Standard

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      Premium

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      Extreme

                      100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

                      Large capacity volumes

                      Flex

                      No

                      Flex Regional

                      No

                      Standard

                      No

                      Premium

                      15 TiB to 3 PiB

                      Extreme

                      15 TiB to 3 PiB

                      Regional availability

                      Flex

                      Most Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Flex Regional

                      Most Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Standard

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Premium

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Extreme

                      14 Google Cloud regions (see list)

                      Uptime / SLA

                      Flex

                      99.9%

                      Flex Regional

                      99.99%

                      Standard

                      99.9%

                      Premium

                      99.95%

                      Extreme

                      99.95%

                      Protocols

                      Flex

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB

                      Flex Regional

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB

                      Standard

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      Premium

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      Extreme

                      NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)

                      *Cost for us-central1 region in USD. 

                      See all pricing.

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                      Business Case

                      Hear why customers choose Google Cloud Netapp Volumes


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                      Wayfair achieves scale and flexibility with Google Cloud Netapp Volumes

                      Matt Bruno, Associate Director of Engineering at Wayfair

                      We always want things better, faster, cheaper. Normally, we don't land all three. But with Google Cloud Netapp Volumes, we were able to. Wayfair is an e-commerce company. And for us, that's connecting a catalog of 20 million products to tens of millions of customers, and having a technology platform that can drive and support that layer of personalization. Our previous storage solution was still one of our free cloud legacy implementations, and it wasn't letting our experience teams take full advantage of Google Cloud and the proper distributed and scalable workloads...Google Cloud Netapp Volumes lets us put that data closer to our customer experience. It lets us distribute it closer to where our compute and software solutions live, and it builds more of a geographic diversity to our platform.

                      FAQ

                      What enterprise workloads can Google Cloud NetApp Volumes support, and what are its performance capabilities?

                      Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports diverse enterprise workloads like file services, SAP, Windows applications, VMware datastores, and databases. It also excels with high-performance demands like EDA. Performance varies by service level (Flex, Standard, Premium, Extreme), offering up to 30 GiB/s throughput for single volumes on Premium and Extreme. Flex provides independent capacity and performance scaling, reaching 5 GiB/s throughput and 160K IOPS, ensuring optimal resource allocation.

                       It offers robust data protection via automated, space-efficient snapshots for rapid recovery and integrated backup for long-term retention. Cross-region volume replication enables strong disaster recovery and business continuity. Flex Regional protects against zonal outages and rapid cloning for dev/test environments further reduce downtime and accelerate development. These features minimize RPOs and RTOs, crucial for enterprise-grade data resilience.

                      Absolutely. Data is secured with encryption at rest and in transit, supporting Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). Access is controlled by Google Cloud IAM and integrated with Active Directory. All data access occurs via private VPC connections. Critically, it supports Google Cloud Assured Workloads to help meet stringent compliance requirements (e.g., ISO, SOC, HIPAA) with pre-configured environments and detailed audit logging, simplifying regulatory adherence.

                       It optimizes costs through consumption-based pricing and flexible service levels, allowing you to right-size performance and capacity. The Flex service level uniquely allows independent scaling of capacity and performance for precise resource allocation. Additionally, Auto-Tiering (available on Flex Zonal, Premium and Extreme service levels) will provide customers an option to automatically move infrequently accessed data from a high-performance, high-cost storage tier (hot tier) to a lower-cost, lower-performance storage tier (cold tier). Furthermore, Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) offer significant savings for predictable usage, and as a fully managed service, it reduces operational overhead.

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